Manoel Bittencourt is an extraordinary professor of economics at the University of Pretoria and a fellow of the Economic Research Department at the South African Reserve Bank. He is also affiliated with the universities of Goettingen, Heidelberg and Oxford and his areas of research are growth and development economics. He focuses on the role of political-regime characteristics on government size, macroeconomic performance, and public goods provision, and in the determinants of democracy. He has also studied the determinants of fertility rates within unified growth theory.
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